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• Interactive tool: Where do the Green Investments go in the EU’s long-term budget?

  The CAN Europe’s MFF Green Investments tool shows where green investments are going in one of the most important instruments of the EU’s Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), namely cohesion policy. The current MFF covers the period 2021-2027, with a total size of 2.018 trillion euros in current prices, consisting of 1211 billion euros (1.211 trillion...

• European Semester 2025 Spring Package: The European Commission urges Member States to phase out fossil fuel subsidies

  European Semester 2025 Spring Package: The European Commission urges Member States to phase out fossil fuel subsidies The European Commission recently issued 27 country reports and related specific recommendations addressed to each Member State, in the framework of the European Semester. We welcomes that CAN Europe’s recommendations were to a large extent taken on board...

• Low-Carbon Delegated Act: Annex

  Brussels, 18 December – In a letter to the new European Commissioner for Energy, Dan Jørgensen, civil society organisations urge the European Commission to strengthen the rules for hydrogen derived from fossil gas in the upcoming Low Carbon Delegated Act (DA). The letter highlights concerns about the proposed default value for greenhouse gas emissions related...

• Historic victory: Council gives green light for EU withdrawal from climate-wrecking Energy Charter Treaty

  Brussels, 30 May 2024 – The Council of the EU today adopted a historic decision to withdraw the European Union from the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), an international investment treaty from the 1990s increasingly used by the fossil fuel industry to sue governments over their climate and energy policies. Audrey Changoe, Trade and Investment Policy...
  • Trade & Climate

• Briefing: Renovating for Change: Understanding the revision process of the EU Buildings Directive

  Written by Eva Brardinelli, Buildings Policy Coordinator, and Erman Erogan, Buildings Policy & Campaign Assistant at CAN Europe.   Τhis analysis is part of Eteron’s project“Mind the Roof”. For more information click here The upcoming EU elections signal a critical juncture for the EU’s 2030 climate and energy targets. The ‘Fit for 55’ Package, a...

• Leading Environment and Climate Organisations Score European Parliament’s 2019-2024 Performance ​

  New in-depth data research from five leading climate and environment organisations reveals that only a minority of MEPs during the 2019 - 2024 mandate acted to protect Europe’s climate, nature and air quality. The majority of MEPs acted instead as either procrastinators or prehistoric thinkers, delaying real action with patchy and inconsistent voting records, or worse, completely failing to rise t...

• EU Parliament Scoreboard​: Protectors, Procrastinators & Prehistoric Thinkers

  New in-depth data research from five leading climate and environment organisations reveals that only a minority of MEPs during the 2019 - 2024 mandate acted to protect Europe’s climate, nature and air quality. The majority of MEPs acted instead as either procrastinators or prehistoric thinkers, delaying real action with patchy and inconsistent voting records, or worse, completely failing to rise t...

• Taking flawed National Energy and Climate Plans to court. Lessons learned from previous cases

  National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) can be a powerful tool to put European countries on track to stay within the critical 1.5°C global warming threshold to avoid the worst consequences of climate change. Those plans will be revised by EU Member States by June 2024, and assessments of the draft revised NECPs have pointed...

• Debunking 7 Myths on the EU’s Due Diligence Law

  In this briefing, we address some of the main myths around the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) and lay out the importance of this law in finally holding European corporations accountable.
  • Trade & Climate

• National Energy and Climate Plans: The Western Balkans

  The National Energy and Climate Plans are plans outlining pathways towards achieving national 2030 energy and climate targets. They play a pivotal role in shaping the transition of the energy sector towards decarbonisation and sustainability. NECPs The main tool to achieve energy & climate targets HOW? Providing the steps and strategies for coal phase out;...

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